Slip-type under garment



Dec. 4, 1962 o. ERTESZQEK SLIP-TYPE UNDER GARMENT INVENTOR. 0A 6? 527552 BY flrraQA/E Y5.

Filed Dec. 22, 1961 3,066,398 SHRTYEE GARl /EEIJT @iga Erteszelr, 7935 Hasiteil Ave, Jan Nays, (Caiif. Filed Dec. 22, 1961, filer. No. 161,634 4- (Iiairns. (Cl. 2-212) This invention has to do generally with improvements in womens under garments and is directed particularly to a novel combination slip and panty single and unitized garment having advantages common to both the usual under slip and light weight panty.

The invention generally contemplates a garment of this character, the body of which is made of a relatively light weight, usual slip-type fabric, having normal slip length from the upper waist portion to the bottom of the garment. In order to afford the garment the panty feature as well as expansiveness beyond the ordinary slip, the body is split centrally at the front and rear and is sewn to form a closed crotch between the upper extremities of the splits, and legs extending from the crotch to the bottom of the garment. Thus the garment offers full freedom and comfort of a slip, while allowing for concealment not afforded by the usual slip.

if made entirely of the usual light weight slip materials, a garment construction as described, is found to display an undesirable lack of conformance to conditions which it is intended to assume, because of instabilities and absence of proper control of the body fabric. These tendencies occur primarily at the front split where, in the absence of provisions contemplated by the invention, the body fabric may assume random departures from proper conformance and hang at the extended edge portions of the split.

Accordingly, my primary object is to overcome this undesirable condition in a manner that will cause the split configuration to assume and retain an essentially straight condition when the garment is worn. This object is accomplished by applying to the body fabric along opposed edge portions of the front split, a relatively heavier fabric, the weight of which is sufficient to cause the desired conformance. To this same end, a similarly characterized band is carried about the bottom edge portion of the garment. The invention particularly contemplates achieving this functional result while affording desirable decorativeness to the garment, by utilizing a relatively heavy lace as the weighting band material.

The invention will be further understood from the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment shown by the accompanying drawing in which:

FIG. 1 is a front elevation of the garment, with one side turned outwardly to expose the split and related construction;

FIG. 2 is a fragmentary enlarged cross section taken on line 2-2 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an inside view looking toward the front of the crotch, taken on line 33 of FIG. 2; and

FIG. 4 is a fragmentary section as viewed downwardly from plane of line 4--4 in FIG. 3.

The body of the garment, made of any of the usual light weight slip fabrics, is shown to have normal slip length from the waist band 11 to the bottom of the body. The latter is split vertically at 12, at the front of the garment, and also at 13 at the gear, the splits extending upwardly to the crotch formation generally indicated at 14 in FIG. 2. The body fabric is closed or sewn together along the edges of the splits to form legs 15 which, the openings 16 (see FIG. 4) are at opposite sides of the crotch 14.

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Fatented Dec. 1962 As shown in FIG. 4, the crotch 14 is formed by doubling inwardly and sewing together the body fabric at 17 and 18, to an internal configuration consisting of folds 19 sewn together at 26 along a seam line extending to the back of the garment at 21. The outer portions 19a of the folds 19 hang generally straight down, whereas the inner folds 19b drape at 22 toward the seam line 20, and the material further drapes at 23 at the insides of the leg opening 16.

It is found that if the garment were made entirely of the light body fabric, it would tend to behave uncontrollably at the front split 12 where straight hanging overlapped conformance of the edge portions of the split is desirable. Accordingly, to assure maintenance of the desired condition, the garment is faced along the full length of the split with bands 24 of relatively heavy fabric sewn to the body along the seam lines 25, and along seams 26 near the body fabric edges defining the split. Preferably, as indicated, the weighting bands 24 are given a degree of overlap as at 27. In order to alford added weight of tensioning of the body fabric not only at the split, but about the entire body of the garment, the latter is faced about the bottom and at the outsides of the legs 15, with a band 28 of similar relatively heavy material. As previously indicated, in order to achieve the functional objectives of conforming the garment to proper shape and hang, and also to add attractiveness, the bands 24 and 23 preferably are made of lace sufficiently heavy for the weighting purposes.

I claim:

1. A slip type undergarment formed of thin lightweight fabric of a length to extend downwardly from the waistline of the wearer to a point below the crotch of the wearer, the body of the garment having an upper continuous torso encircling portion and a lower portion including separate leg portions, the lower front central portions of the garment being folded and having the adjacent edges of the folds overlapped and secured together at the top of the folds so that said edges of the folds hang close together on the wearer to present a skirted effect at the front of the garment, and bands of weight adding lace applied to the body fabric along the folds at said edges from the top of the crotch covering portion to substantially the bottom of the garment to cause said edge portions to hang together by the weighting effect of he lace in an essentially straight line when on the wearer.

2. A garment according to claim 7 wherein said lace bands are also applied to and about the exposed bottom edge portions of the garment, the top extremities of said first-mentioned bands converging upwardly to an apex at the location of the crotch.

3. A garment according to claim 1 in which the adjacent edges of said bands hang in overlapping relationship from the crotch to the bottom of the garment.

4. A garment according to claim 1 in which said bands of lace overlap at the outside of said folds and hang parallel therewith.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS D. 149,094 Silverman Mar. 23, 1948 1,293,152 Malsiu Feb. 4, 1919 2,665,428 Bowley Jan. 12, 1954 2,758,312 Goldstein Aug. 14, 1956 FOREIGN PATENTS 472,129 Great Britain Sept. 17, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No, 3,066,308 December 4 1962 Olga Erteszek It is hereby certified that error appears in the above numbered patent requiring correction and that the said Letters Patent should read as corrected below.

Column .2 line 47, for the claim reference numeral "7" read 1 --e Signed and sealed this 14th day of May 1963.,

(SEAL) Attest:

ERNEST w. SWIDER DAVID LADD Attcsting Officer Commissioner of Patents 

